Ch.6 Human Biosphere
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| Practice of farming | Agriculture
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| Farming strategy in which large fields are planted with a single crop, year after year | Monoculture
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| Development of highly productive crop strains and the use of modern agricultural techniques to increase yields of food crops | Green revolution
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| Resources that can regenerate if alive or can be replenished by biochemical cycles if they are nonliving | Renewable resources
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| Resources that cannot be replenished by natural processes | No renewable resources
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| Way of using natural resources without depleting them and of providing for human needs without causing long-term environmental harm | Sustainable development
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| Wearing away of surface soil by water and wind | Soil erosion
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| A process caused by a combination of poor farming practices, overgrazing, and drought that turns productive land into desert | Desertification
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| Destruction of forests | Deforestation
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| Raising of aquatic animals for human consumption | Aquaculture
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| Mixture of chemicals that occurs as a gray-brown haze in the atmosphere | Smog
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| A harmful material that can enter the biosphere through the land, air, or water | Pollutant
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| Rain containing nitric and sulfuric acids | Acid rain
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| The sum total of the genetically based variety of all organisms in the biosphere | Biodiversity
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| Variety of habitats, communities, and ecological processes in the living world | Ecosystem diversity
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| Number of different species I the biosphere | Species diversity
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| The sum total of all the different forms of genetic information carried by all organisms | Genetic diversity
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| Occurs whena species dessapears from all or part of its range | Extinction
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| Species whose population size is declining in a way that places it in danger of extinction | Endangered species
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| Splitting of ecosystems into small fragments | Habitat fragmentation
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| Process in which concentrations of harmful substance increase in organisms at higher trophic levels Ina food chain or food web | Biological magnification
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| Plants and animals that have migrated to places where they are not native | Invasive species
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| Wise management of natural resources, including the preservation of habitats and wildlife | Conservation
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| Atmospheric layer in which ozone gas is relatively concentrated | Ozone layer
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| Increase in the average temperatures on Earth | Global warming
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